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Should journalists be human beings?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

Scott Rosenberg over at Salon has an interesting post, which I came across after reading his post about Apple and Boot Camp (for the record, he’s not interested). It seems a producer on Good Morning America named John Green was fired after Matt Drudge posted some emails he sent a ... Continue reading »

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Brian
3 years ago

Of course you should have opinions. However .. from the point of view of a consumer not a producer of news it's not the public who holds journalists to standards of impossible objectivity but you guys.

That is - y'all say "we're objective and repot only the facts" and news consumers are like all 'ya right" and you guys are like "no really" and we're like "okay what-E-ver but what about this and that clear example of bias" and round and round it goes.

We're _all_ victims of a glass society where information propagates at light speed and nothing is going to remain hidden. This time it's John Green next time it might be someone finding an obscure post I made to a listserv back in the day. Not that I am anyone of note (aside from my job with an odd company) but still.

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Mathew
3 years ago

Good points, Brian -- thanks for the comment.

Mathew

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Stuart MacDonald
3 years ago

What, journalists are humans? Is this new?

;-)

- Stuart

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Dominic Jones
3 years ago

I'll take a journalist with an opinion, a point of view, a mission and a passion any day over a unmotivated hack who rewrites news releases and simply repeats what each side of an argument says without question.

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